With this complex cast, Kushner thickens the plot and weaves a tight web which functions as a metaphor of what America really is (Munoz 2006: 6), a melting-pot of races, religions and political ideologies in which all of them need to work together in order for the world to progress. Roman points it out that “Kushner’s play opens up the microstructures of the characters’ interactions in order to comment on the macrostructures of social institutions, political philosophies, and competing historiographies” (Roman qtd in Munoz 2006: 5). In other words, he uses their personal histories to talk about more global themes.
Angels in America’s handling of history seems to revolve around a postmodern remake of the long established old American myths
Angels in America’s handling of history seems to revolve around a postmodern remake of the long established old American myths